2 English for Information Technology A2-B1 Vocational English Teacher’s Book

Speaking  

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  Students work in groups to discuss two 

questions. The first provides freer practice of the 

language point for this section. The second 

allows an opportunity for some basic critical 

thinking around the topic of the section, as well 

as recycling of vocabulary relating to enterprise 

social networking systems. 

 

Video conferencing 

Speaking  

1

  The lead-in questions here guide students to talk 

about advantages and disadvantages of visual as 

opposed to audio-only communication and 

introduce the topic of video conferencing. 

Suggested answers 

3   no need to travel, lower cost, less time  

    wasted, more flexibility 

2

  Students now look at a photo of a video 

conferencing set-up and decide which items 

from the list they can see in it. This is best done 

collaboratively, for example, in pairs. Most of 

the vocabulary here is new. An interesting point 

is that some of the items that logically must be 

present, such as cables and video cameras, 

cannot be seen. You could ask students to 

speculate about where those items might be 

(cables might be ducted through the furniture 

and video cameras might be small and above the 

Interactions 

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monitors). The control panels can be seen:  

they are the screens in front of each of the local 

participants. 

control panels, high-definition monitors, local 

participants, remote participants